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Mesoscale Discussion 1277
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 14, 2016, 3:17 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2016, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Berkshire County, MA, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Bronx County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Essex County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Kings County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Addison County, VT, Bennington County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Orleans County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 30 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 10:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkshire | 115 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Vermont, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.